Anastasia Malaguti, better known by her stage name, ZaZa Maree, is an American singer, songwriter and music producer.

Music career

Malaguti began her music career at the age of 14, when she created the rap-pop duo Cash & ZaZa with former

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bassist Cash Colligan. The duo released two official singles, "Mirror" and "Hahalujah", before she moved to a solo career. She released her debut EP "#Forever" in 2013, with three

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s and their instrumental counterparts, which she co-wrote and co-produced. Shortly after releasing the EP, she was asked to write a song for the TV show '' Raising Asia'', Ray’s ''

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'' spinoff on the

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network. With a production team which included '' Fame'' star

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, Maree co-wrote five of the songs sung by Ray in the first season of ''Raising Asia''. JackEL also released the single "Just Fine," a collaboration with singer-songwriter ZaZa Maree that year. JackEL and ZaZa Maree performed the song at the 350th Hunnypot Live event at The Mint music club in Los Angeles. Maree’s next two singles, "Go Back" and "Just Fine", were released in 2016, and her single "With You" was released on Sep. 22, 2017. With You currently has 500,000 streams on Spotify. In 2014, she was featured on Rai Italia in her home recording studio. Maree performed at the Carolina Country Music Festival in 2016, among a lineup which included

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, and

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. She performed at Grave Diggers Ball later that year in

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, with

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and headliner

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, and opened for Trina in Las Vegas.

Personal life

Anastasia Malaguti is the daughter of professional

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. She grew up in

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, after moving from her hometown of

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at the age of 6. She started playing piano at age 4, and started singing and playing guitar at age 11. She performed

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s of songs around Las Vegas as a child. She was Miss Nevada High School 2014.

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